Sentence examples for placid corner from inspiring English sources

TIOGA, N.D. — As much as the drilling rigs that tower over this once placid corner of the prairie, the two communities springing up just outside of town testify to the galloping pace of growth here in oil country.

Reminders of the dead stud this placid corner of earth: statues of officers and regular soldiers; stones of irregular size and design commemorating regiments, many of them listing the number of casualties.

Tucked away in a quiet corner of the Wiltshire countryside south of Bath, Stourhead is a self-contained 40-acre enclave of variously wooded slopes studded with temples, monuments and tumbling cascades, all arranged around a placid Y-shaped lake.

It begins as a seething social drama, with the arrival of a mixed-race couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) in a placid, law-abiding corner of Los Angeles.

To solicit shooting victims in the E.R. is heartless, but to hand out business cards in placid settings -- a street corner, perhaps, or a lovely forest glade -- is innocuous.

-- and the hurricane threat was more imminent to North Carolina, but CNN was cutting between reporters awkwardly standing on placid New York beaches and downtown corners, bracing for the big one, while talking heads in the studio ranted about how New Yorkers presented a unique challenge in emergency preparedness because they are stubborn and jaded and wear too much black.

Philadelphia in summer is still the hot, placid city where street life means corner taverns with open doors and row-house stoops occupied by supervising grandparents.

Yet most astrophysicists consider our corner of the universe a relatively placid place, so the source of all this energy has remained mysterious.

Spirits guide just about everything in Lily Dale, a village of colorful Victorian gingerbread houses on small, placid Cassadaga Lake, near the Village of Cassadaga in a rural corner of New York State closer to Cleveland than to New York City.

"It was a placid scene.

He was eerily placid.